To sign elephant in ASL, start with your dominant hand at your nose, fingers together and slightly bent. Move the hand down and out in a curve, as if tracing a long trunk, and finish beside your shoulder with the palm facing forward. Keep the movement smooth and unbroken.
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How to sign it
Handshape: an open hand with the fingers together and slightly bent.
Location: start with the hand at your nose.
Movement: move the hand down and out in a curve, then up, ending beside your shoulder.
Palm orientation: the palm faces your face at the start and faces forward at the end.
Use it in a sentence
ELEPHANT EAT.
The elephant is eating.
This video shows one common way to sign elephant. Lifeprint also shows another version that uses a C handshape to show the shape of the trunk.
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/e/elephant.htm.
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